Notes Toward a Theory of Communication and Social Change.

Abstract

The author outlines a number of methods for identifying parts of the social system to which the individual belongs and the 'nature of communication' in the systems context. He emphasizes 'expectation' as a crucial condition for reception as well as the basis for redundancy. He defines a number of useful constructs such as 'communication', 'change', Ashbey's Law of Requisite Variety, circumstances as probability vectors, systematic errors, S lags, P lag, and R lag. He presents an integrated format on which his future work on this project will be based. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1971
Accession Number
ADA043841

Entities

People

  • James H. Campbell

Organizations

  • Wichita State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Base Lines
  • Batch Processing
  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Closed Loop Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Economic Systems
  • Feedback
  • Language
  • New York
  • Personality
  • Probability
  • Social Sciences
  • Societies
  • United States

Readers

  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Theoretical Analysis.